Every species of animal or bird dwells in his proper place, and often the area is large enough. When you're looking for a specific animal, you will need to go to the point, which is marked on the map. Once you're in the right place, you can craft or buy different things for lightweight hunting.
It is worth to note that the cost of selling the carcass of an animal or skins you can find in the images below, they are the baseline. Now you can find maps of the game world, which marked the habitat of birds and animals in RDR 2.
Where to find alligators, armadillos, badgers and bats
Where to find boars, beavers, bears, grizzly bear, wild boar and jays
Where to look for the Gannet, goats, Buffalo, frog-bull, the cardinal and chickens
Where to find chipmunks, condors, cormorants, Kaparov, cows and coyotes
Where to find turkeys, turtles, Buzzards, waxwings, woodpeckers and wolves
Where to look for snakes, songbirds, sparrows, spoonbills, squirrels and toads
Where to find rats, crows, blackbirds, roosters, sheep, and skunks
Where to find the pigeons, the pronghorn, quail, rabbits, raccoons and sheep
Where to find crabs, cranes, crows, deer, ducks and eagles
Where to look for muskrats, opossums, Orioles, owls, oxen, Panthers and
Where to look and the usual long-tailed parrots, peccaries, pelicans, pheasants and pigs
Where to find great white egret, elk, Fox, Dosumov, goats and geese
Where to look for gulls, hawks, the usual herons, iguanas, loons and American moose